Course overview

SSI Advanced Adventurer lets you sample south-ari-atoll's signature diving, from channel drifts and deeper walls to the whale-shark zone, across five specialty dives. You pick the adventures that match the atoll and build confidence to 30m on world-class reefs.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • SSI Advanced Adventurer digital materials (free)
  • Five specialty adventure dives
  • Deep and navigation dives included
  • Three elective specialty dives
  • All course equipment
  • SSI Advanced Adventurer digital certification
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Advanced Open Water pathway

SSI Advanced Adventurer counts each adventure dive toward a full specialty, includes free digital materials and repeatable sessions, and issues an SSI digital card valid to 30m.

Where you'll dive in South Ari Atoll

Dives range from calm house reefs at 5-18m to channel slopes and outer walls at 30m, where grey reef sharks and eagle rays gather in the current. A drift along a kandu and a dive on a deep drop-off show off the atoll's best diving.

Prefer a different certifying agency?PADI Advanced Open Water in South Ari Atoll →

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

Flights and accommodation aren’t part of the course price, here’s how to book them around your dates.

Getting there

Fly into Malé (MLE) · 3-4 hours from India.

Where to stay

Hotels and stays near the dive sites, compare rates and book direct.

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